If you forget that and you take the dunks out, he's really an old-school player, just like Tim, who I think is the consummate old-school player.

He wrote plays for old-school players, what he called "the drunken, stagey, brass-bowelled barnstormers".

The Knicks, outside of Anthony Mason and occasionally John Starks, are a team of obedient, old-school players who won't rock the boat.

I know, you've heard a lot of this from us old-school players.

McCready acquired the nickname "Keither with the Ether" as a teenager, but was considered an old-school player who was fast and very accurate at the table.

If he was going to be cast as an old-school player with throwback ideas, it was fine with Sampras.

And yet as the Wii's swan song (Nintendo plans to introduce its successor next year), the company has released an old-school game for old-school players.

Brown has always been skilled at delivering in-my-day rants, going on about the hardships and realities of old-school players.

He is a sort of old-school player with this 70's sensibility.

"Sometimes, I make a very obscure jersey that an old-school player wore, but it's not in the consciousness of the traditional sports fan," Mr. Capolino said.